Recently I came into a client who had a Windows XP machine that contained a nasty little virus that rendered the machine nearly unusable. When the machine would boot the CPU was pegging out at 100%, causing the GUI to be nearly unresponsive.
I attempted to run AVG, Avast, Malwarebytes – but all for naught. The [...]

Tags: antivirus, ClamAV, f-prot, virus-scanner
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, Windows, troubleshooting

KPlato is one of those tools that could easily get overlooked – but certainly shouldn’t. KPlato is project management tool that offers more features that many similar tools costing significantly more money (since KPlato is free – that’s fairly easy to figure out). KPlato was created with the intention of managing moderate to large projects [...]

Tags: KDE, KPlato, project management, resources, scheduling
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, software

One of the nice, but somewhat hidden, features of the upcoming Ubuntu 10.4 release is that you can access chatting, tweeting, and social network all from a simple panel applet. Now I will warn you, this feature is not production-worthy. In other words, it will crash on you. But to see what is in store [...]

Tags: facebook, GNOME, Lucid Lynx, social desktop, twitter, ubuntu
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Virtual Volumes View (VVV) is a free disk catalog software for the Linux, Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It can not only catalog disks like CDs or DVDs but also files and folders in virtual volumes making them available for offline viewing on the local computer system and over a computer network.
Virtual Volumes [...]

Tags: disk catalog software, disk cataloging, linux software, mac software, Open Source, virtual volumes view, windows software
Categories: Linux, Mac, Windows, software

How many ways can you organize your life? You can use spreadsheets, documents, images, flow charts or (if you’re organization is more organic in nature) a mind mapping software. Tools like this are very special tools that allow the user to create visual puzzles of a sort of train of thought organization. Mind maps are [...]

Tags: mind mapping, mind organization, office tools
Categories: Linux, Mac, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

For those of you who are lucky enough to have the Elive distribution running on your desktop you  might have noticed there is no CCSM (Compiz Config  Settings Manager). At least not that you can find. You can’t run the command ccsm and you can’t install the application ccsm. At one point Elive had a [...]

Tags: Compiz, Ecomorph, elive, linux desktop
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Yesterday I walked you through the process of connecting to a Microsoft PPTP VPN (see my article “Connecting to a Microsoft VPN with Linux“). That article used a simple GUI tool to allow you to create your VPN tunnel. Unfortunately there is no magic support you can add to the Network Manager Applet to add [...]

Tags: OpenSwan, Sonicwall, vpn
Categories: Hardware, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, software

One of the Achilles heels of the Linux operating system is connecting to a VPN. Due to it’s natural ability to network, one would think connecting to a VPN would be a simple task. In some cases it is. In some cases it certainly is not. This is completely dependent upon the type of VPN [...]

Tags: Linux VPN, Microsoft VPN, Network Mangager, vpn
Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software